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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Spring

It is now Spring and the ranch is alive with flora and fauna. Quail, rabbits, robins, and towhees flit through our grassy five acres sequined with apple blossoms, daffodils, iris, and pansies. The deer and our four horses graze with an occasional nod toward the rancher who carries her muckrake. A flicker taps the top of our horse shelter like a jack hammer then looks up. The silence lingers.

I love it, Brian! I look forward to your future blog posts!! In the modern world, cyber-stalking is almost as good as sharing a cup of joe with an old friend, particularly when hundreds of miles separate you :-)

What an ideal picture you have gracing the blog. I am so impressed with what you and Vicki have accomplished in such a short amount of time and now a Blog....where do you get your energy Brian? I get a taste of your world reading the blog....thanks for sharing it with me. Andrea

Country Living

When E.B. White retired he moved to a country house in Maine and said:

“Just to live in the country is a full-time job.You don’t have to do anything.The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.”

About Me

Played football for the University of Washington, BA in Theatre, 1964. Four years in the Marine Corps (one tour in Vietnam). University of Portland, MFA in Theatre, 1974. Retired from teaching theatre in Portland (1998). Retired in 2007 after 22 years as Executive Director of the Young Musicians & Artists Summer Arts program held at Willamette University. Currently writing and gardening on Chestnut Pinto Ranch."

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Awards

Finalist for the 2010 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Contest and have the piece, "Lessons from Vietnam," published in Crab Orchard Review (Vol. 15 #1).

My poem, "Alignment" Received "Highly Commended Poem, 2014" in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition. www.munsterlit.ie The poem is published inOberonMagazine.Liebster Blog Award given to "Ranch Dressing"